Chadwick - The hybrid media system: politics and power

This is an important book, already cited as seminal in the field of political communication.Laura Roselle, Elon University, in Choice.

. . . mandatory reading for any scholar of contemporary political communicationCatie Snow Bailard, George Washington University, in Political Communication.

. . . illuminating, reorienting, even analytically liberating.Regina G. Lawrence, University of Oregon, in Political Science Quarterly.

. . . dizzyingly multidimensionalMike Ananny, University of Southern California, in Journalism.

. . . great insights, a highly enjoyable reading experience, and excellent researchThomas Schillemans, Utrecht University, in Public Administration.

Chadwicks measured analytical approach is one of the books great strengths.Philip M. Napoli, Duke University, in The International Journal of Press/Politics.

Chadwick approaches media with considerable theoretical nuance and a rigorously empirical sensibility . . . a major contribution to advancing our understanding of media and politics.Daniel Kreiss, University of North CarolinaChapel Hill, and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Oxford University, in Social Forces.

This is an important and timely book . . . will likely one day be measured by the weight of future scholarship that it inspires.David Karpf, George Washington University, in Information Polity.

Chadwicks primary aim is to peel away the misbegotten dichotomies shaping so many current debates surrounding contemporary political communication and to present alternative frameworks that go beyond those dichotomies. In that aim, he is extraordinarily successful.Matthew Powers, University of Washington, in Media, Culture, & Society.

Big theory for understanding a complex political media environmentJason Gainous, University of Louisville, and Kevin Wagner, Florida Atlantic University, in The Journal of Politics.

. . . valuable, thought-provoking, and conceptually-compelling.Steven Livingston, George Washington University, in Perspectives on Politics.

Having read this, many textbooks feel dated to me now. This volume describes the organization, logic, and function of contemporary media in immediate and engaging terms. It is a must read for all students of media, and interested parties in general.Zizi Papacharissi, University of Illinois Chicago, on Roy Christophers Summer Reading List blog post.

Series Editor: Andrew Chadwick, Professor of Political Communication in the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture and the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University

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